April 28, 2017 03:35 PM UTC

"Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!" Church on the Colorado House Floor

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• by: Colorado Pols

You Friday moment of Zen, supplied by GOP Rep. Lori Saine–during debate today in the Colorado House over a resolution honoring former Sen. Bill Armstrong, former president of Colorado Christian University.

It gets a little rambly, but Rep. Saine shifts gears from praising for Sen. Armstrong into a quasi-sermon about how Colorado is “ground zero in the battle for the next generation”–and how Christians in the General Assembly are more than “conquerors in Christ.”

SAINE: As more and more of our brothers and sisters are being led into slavery in this ever-mounting spiritual warfare, we need abolitionists more than ever. From all parties, from all corners. Do not forget who you really are. Lead them all to the one whom Bill loves. This country needs a third Great Awakening, and if it starts here, begins now in this place, this will be the most important work we will have ever done together in this chamber.

And from there, Rep. Saine led the faithful in the Colorado House in a rousing chant of “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” rounding out this minute or so of revival.

…Or the deity of your choice, Rep. Saine forgot to say! That’s the law of the land.

Now, we’re not entirely sure what Rep. Saine meant by all of that, but we assume the stuff about “abolitionism” was not intended in the sense we understand from American history. Also, the Colorado House of Representatives is not really the right venue for a “Third Great Awakening,” however important that might be to Rep. Saine personally. There’s this small matter of the separation of church and state.

Of course, the legislature doesn’t do business on Sundays, so we suppose they could hold church then? Otherwise, we believe the legislature has more than enough to do between now and adjournment–and they should save the proselytizing for when lawmakers are off the clock.